Published at: 01:08 am - Friday August 21 2009
Have we here a Facebook Stalker?!
Of great consideration to online privacy are facebook stalkers. If a stalker randomly manages to add a few of your friends and you have your Profile Privacy Settings allowing “Friends of Friends” to see everything then your stalker effectively has access to your profile even without having added you.
I’ve now [...]
Published at: 06:04 pm - Sunday April 26 2009
Trust me. We’re still dealing with regexes – just in a roundabout (and vaguely practical) way. This is a pretty comprehensive listing of how to go about flushing DNS caches while using regexes to show where similar methods deviate.
Why do we want to clear DNS caches exactly?
There are a number of reasons to clear DNS [...]
Published at: 12:11 pm - Friday November 21 2008
So I gots me s’more spam to mah mobile. o.O
Thankfully, it turns out that there is some proper recourse. Thanks to Stefano for pointing me in the right direction. (original post here)
WASPA (or Wireless Application Service Providers’ Association) is the “Industry Body” for Wireless Service Providers in SA. They have a complaints page where you [...]
Published at: 11:11 pm - Thursday November 13 2008
I don’t receive much spam to my mobile phone. I have received random sms’s on occasion about “special” offers and so forth. Someone also once sms’d “on my behalf” to one of those late-night e-tv specials adverts. Every month I receive an enticing message informing me about what I’m missing out on. I wonder though, [...]